So the London 2012 Olympic Games have come to an end. A spectacular closing ceremony last night – with music, song, dance, awe-inspiring stadium lighting and fireworks that made up the greatest show on earth – brought the past two weeks of competition to an emotional climax. The sight of…
The past two weeks of the London 2012 Olympic Games have certainly been a time of drama, high emotion, success and failure, and a general lifting of the spirits to witness such displays of intense effort and much achievement by athletes from over 100 countries. The positive focus on this…
The most useful software tool for Windows that I’ve discovered this year (if not in the past few years) is Connectify. This utility lets you connect your laptop, netbook or other Windows PC to a wired or wireless internet connection, and then share that single connection with your mobile devices…
Imaginative, well thought out ideas – they definitely make Wikipedia prettier – which I’m interpreting as meaning far easier to understand the structure and navigate it to the things that interest you. I’d argue that usability would be improved, too (I wonder what Jakob Nielsen would make of it?). Huge…
Like all professions, public relations has codes of ethics that describe behaviours to guide those who practice the profession to differentiate what’s right and wrong in how they do that. A simplistic view, perhaps, but not far off a base description of what ethical behaviour in PR should be about…
Cisco Systems launched The Network about a year ago. At that time, we interviewed John Earnhardt, the communicator responsible for the site, about the goals and aspirations for the content portal that folded in the company’s former media center. A year later, FIR co-host Shel Holtz chats with John about…
Content summary: FIR Interview with IABC executive director Chris Sorek published; new interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt coming; Canada’s super holiday; Be Positively Social on August 14, says Frank Eliason; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Is the PR world underestimating Reddit’s importance?; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on social media…
Far from changing the radio landscape, podcasting has been commandeered by the radio industry, says Richard MacManus in his post Radio Killed the Podcasting Star. As a podcaster myself, I’d say MacManus has written a fair assessment of a podcasting landscape that is indeed dominated by the mainstream media rather…
